{"id":79204,"date":"2026-06-02T19:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-49754-http-2-continuation-flood-in-mint-client-via-unbounded-header-block-accumulation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:16:44","slug":"cve-2026-49754-http-2-continuation-flood-in-mint-client-via-unbounded-header-block-accumulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-49754-http-2-continuation-flood-in-mint-client-via-unbounded-header-block-accumulation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-49754 &#8211; HTTP\/2 CONTINUATION flood in Mint client via unbounded header-block accumulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-49754<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 2, 2026, 4:16 p.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-mint Mint allows attacker-controlled HTTP\/2 servers to exhaust memory in a Mint client (HTTP\/2 CONTINUATION flood).<\/p>\n<p>When Mint&#8217;s HTTP\/2 receive path observes a HEADERS frame without the END_HEADERS flag, the unparsed header-block fragment is parked in conn.headers_being_processed, and every subsequent CONTINUATION frame on that stream is appended to the accumulator. Nothing in the receive path caps the accumulator: there is no per-stream size limit, no CONTINUATION frame-count limit, and max_header_list_size is only enforced on outgoing requests, never on inbound header blocks (its default is :infinity).<\/p>\n<p>A malicious or compromised HTTP\/2 server can stream an endless sequence of CONTINUATION frames (each up to the peer-advertised SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE) and drive the client&#8217;s iolist to arbitrary size, causing memory exhaustion and BEAM process death. A single connection to an attacker-controlled HTTP\/2 endpoint is sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.9.0.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.2 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-49754 Published : June 2, 2026, 4:16 p.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago Description :Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-mint Mint allows attacker-controlled HTTP\/2 servers to exhaust memory in a Mint client (HTTP\/2 CONTINUATION flood). When Mint&#8217;s HTTP\/2 receive path observes a HEADERS frame without the END_HEADERS flag, the unparsed header-block &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}